《The Song Collector》歌词

歌曲： The Song Collector

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歌手： Chumbawamba

时长： 03:26

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The Song Collector - Chumbawamba[00:00:00]

The Folk Society meet on Thursday nights[00:00:08]

Clear their throats and put their coughs to flight[00:00:13]

To sing the dusty cobwebs from the room[00:00:17]

A repertoire both in and out of tune[00:00:22]

Don't assume a singalong or worse[00:00:27]

This history in song and countless verse[00:00:31]

Pays homage to the man who long ago[00:00:36]

Collected all the songs the singers know[00:00:41]

Collected all the songs the singers know[00:00:45]

Edward Alexander man of action[00:00:55]

Armed only with his reel-to-reel contraption[00:00:59]

One hundred years ago in mac and boots[00:01:04]

Set out to faithfully preserve the region's roots[00:01:08]

And every night in some small village inn[00:01:12]

Fortified with fortitude and gin[00:01:17]

Mr Alexander for a shilling[00:01:21]

Would thus record your song if you were willing[00:01:26]

Would thus record your song if you were willing[00:01:30]

So word got round and soon there formed a queue[00:01:34]

And the line of willing singers grew and grew[00:01:38]

Brass for oohs and aahs You can't go wrong[00:01:43]

When there's someone paying a shilling for a song[00:01:47]

When all his tapes are filled up Edward leaves[00:01:52]

There's a history preserved so he believes[00:01:56]

But all the so-called singers back inside[00:02:00]

They know they took a city scholar for a ride[00:02:04]

They know they took a city scholar for a ride[00:02:09]

For they shook the man for every coin he'd got[00:02:13]

With words and tunes all made up on the spot[00:02:18]

Invented tales not twenty minutes old[00:02:22]

So history like ale is bought and sold[00:02:27]

The old contraption's packed away and boxed[00:02:31]

And a century is marked upon the clock[00:02:35]

So tradition holds that Edward's great collection[00:02:39]

Is honoured with a weekly resurrection[00:02:44]

Honoured with a weekly resurrection[00:02:49]

And now the old Society sing the songs[00:02:58]

Word for word and kept where they belong[00:03:02]

As once again they eulogise the past[00:03:07]

You can hear the ghosts of history laughing last[00:03:11]

You can hear the ghosts of history laughing last[00:03:16]